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• ‟ I have short hair. It doesn't make me more unattractive than a woman or my sisters that have more longer hair and a bit lighter.

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• ‟ You could fancy what you'd like, but as a woman, my mother always raised us to believe in ourselves. I am very grateful that my mother brought me up that way.

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• ‟ When I was growing up, my mother taught me and my sisters to celebrate each other - there was no room in our household for negativity. She taught us to embrace each other, and this was empowering for us. She also taught us the value of celebrating our differences.

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• ‟ I could never understand why other kids wanted to truant - my education here gave me everything. It's the place where I really got to flourish.

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• ‟ When I was a girl, civil war in Sudan forced me to flee my home town of Wau.

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• ‟ You can feel very strongly that someone doesn't like you. I think any model who didn't have the same sort of upbringing as me would find that very difficult. But I absolutely knew I was entitled. I never thought I was ugly - it never crossed my mind.

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• ‟ My family is the most important thing to me.

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• ‟ Bones inside clothes. That was war to me.

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• ‟ If my mother hadn't encouraged me, I would be nervous and feeling like I'm doing something wrong.

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